Todays Cost of getting a PPL

Crash Lander wrote: brevity snip
"gpsman" wrote in message
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Kyle Boatright wrote:

When you have 5 hours you haven't yet had the opportunity to have
learned the subtle points, nor develop much "touch" to lose.

The less you know and the less experience you have the less skills seem
to be necessary and the easier everything seems to be... since you
haven't yet broken the surface of knowledge or skill.

Point taken, but not entirely agreed with. The fact remains that a pilot who
is at the circuits part of the training, regardless of how many hours he's
taken to get there, has sufficient "touch" to be able to control the
aircraft with minimal to no input from an instructor.

Sure, no argument there. But the fact remains that the masters of
every fine skill feel the edge come off their technique after 24-48
hours. They notice that, the novice doesn't, since he hasn't yet
attained that edge.

That's why Yo-Yo Ma and his ilk still practice between gigs and can
coax better performance from inferior instruments.

You may not need his level of skill to fly, but you'd probably be best
off working toward it.

To me, flying is all about practicing precision and attention to
detail. If you can meet a master aerial agricultural sprayer ask him
to show you a GPS record of his spray patterns.
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- gpsman

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Blanche writes:

Then you probably have an illegal or very old copy of MSFS.

I checked. The actual price was 39 euro.

Then how can you legally install and run your flight sim?

The owner of the computer has loaned it to me for my use, since I
cannot afford a computer of my own.

France is a signatory to the Berne Convention of 1986 regarding
intellectual property law.

So?

Most of us (actually, I'd estimate 99.9% of us here) have worked
and saved and made choices in order to fly.

Most of you have not been wiped out and deprived of employment by
economic changes, either.

Most of us have gone out and gotten jobs even after set-backs. It's called
getting off you ass and doing something.


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Nomen Nescio writes:

Flying gets you laid.

I don't want to get laid. I'm interested in aviation, not sex.

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Dave Stadt wrote:
Most of you have not been wiped out and deprived of employment by
economic changes, either.

Most of us have gone out and gotten jobs even after set-backs. It's called
getting off you ass and doing something.



Oh, he couldn't do that.



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

Mxsmanic wrote:
Nomen Nescio writes:

Flying gets you laid.

I don't want to get laid. I'm interested in aviation, not sex.



I really like both, LOTS! G

Wolfgang Schwanke writes:

Have you considered welfare? Maybe you're entitled to social security
or whatever the equivalent is called in France.

The welfare system is very complex and is usually "worked" by people
who make a profession out of living on the dole, and it's very
difficult to navigate for people who have traditionally earned their
own livings. I don't know if I'm eligible for anything or not. The
few calculations I've managed to do showed very little to be gained.
If I had five wives or something, the situation would be different.

Like most welfare systems, the French system works best for those who
shouldn't be using it.

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"Morgans" wrote in message
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"Parshooter12" wrote

50 hours airplane rental at $85/hr is: $4675
30 hours instructor at $30/yr is: $ 900

Dang, where do you live? I want to borrow your instructor. At $30 per
year, I could afford to move for a few months.
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Jim in NC

oops! grin $30/hr

Sorry about that.

BucFan wrote:

"Blanche" wrote in message

BucFan wrote:
Love the Harry Potter quote! The wait for the last book is killing me!

John

Jose
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"Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where
it
keeps its brain." (chapter 10 of book 3 - Harry Potter).
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

With all the hype that JKR stirred up earlier this year that one of
the major characters will die, I'm betting it's Hermione.


I am going with Ron, clearing the way for Harry and Hermione.

Nah -- it's always going to be Ron & Hermione. Thinking more about it,
I'm thinking Harry. Why? Classic Robert Heinlein. Once the Hero defeats
the Antagonist, there's nothing for the Hero to do.

Same philosophy demonstrated in the Matrix Trilogy. And lots of the
Greek tragedies.

But I still go for Hermione -- that will get the biggest OH SH*T effect
from the audience.

Blanche writes:

But I still go for Hermione -- that will get the biggest OH SH*T effect
from the audience.

A female author might be more inclined to kill off female characters
(and vice versa), just out of a natural attraction to the opposite
sex.

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On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 20:36:21 -0500, "Kyle Boatright"
wrote:

Half the people in the world have above
average motor skills, after all. ;-)

Well, actually, not necessarily. "Above median" I'll give you.

Rick